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Nightwork : sexuality, pleasure, and corporate masculinity in a Tokyo hostess club / Anne Allison.
Author
Allison, Anne, 1950-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Description
xiii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
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GT3415.J3 A45 1994
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Subject(s)
Bars (Drinking establishments)
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Entertaining
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Male friendship
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Corporate culture
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Cocktail servers
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Japan
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Tokyo
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Tokyo (Japan)
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Social life and customs
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Summary note
In researching this book, the author took on the role of a hostess in one of Tokyo's many "hostess clubs". The resulting text critically examines how such establishments create bonds among white-collar men and forge a masculine identity that suits the needs of their corporations.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-209) and index.
Contents
pt. 1. Ethnography of a Hostess Club. Ch. 1. A Type of Place. Ch. 2. A Type of Routine. Ch. 3. A Type of Woman
pt. 2. Mapping the Nightlife within Cultural Categories. Ch. 4. Social Place and Identity. Ch. 5. The Meaning and Place of Work: The Sarariiman. Ch. 6. Family and Home. Ch. 7. Structure of Japanese Play. Ch. 8. Male Play with Money, Women, and Sex
pt. 3. Male Rituals and Masculinity. Ch. 9. Male Bonding. Ch. 10. The Mizu Shobai Woman: Constructing Dirtiness and Sex. Ch. 11. Impotence as a Sign and Symbol of the Sarariiman.
ISBN
0226014851 ((alk. paper))
9780226014852 ((alk. paper))
0226014878 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
9780226014876 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
LCCN
93034877
OCLC
28966869
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